Sakura Diaries

Sakura Diaries
Cover of the first manga volume
桜通信
(Sakura Tsuushin)
Genre
Manga
Written byU-Jin
Published byShogakukan
MagazineWeekly Young Sunday
DemographicSeinen
Original run19952000
Volumes20
Original video animation
Directed byKunitoshi Okajima
Produced by
  • Hideaki Kaneko (Victor Entertainment)
  • Shōji Muronaga (Kitty Film)
  • Tooru Taga
  • Hiroshi Wakao (Shaft)
Written byKenji Terada
Music byMitsuo Hagita
StudioShaft
Licensed by
Released May 21, 1997 October 22, 1997
Runtime22 minutes
Episodes12

Sakura Diaries (Japanese: 桜通信, Hepburn: Sakura Tsūshin) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by U-Jin. It was serialized in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Sunday from 1995 to 2000, with its chapters collected in twenty tankōbon volumes. It follows the adventures of a boy who, unable to get into a prestigious university, pretends to be a student there in order to impress a girl, while ending up having to go to cram school and living together with his cousin, who is in unrequited love with him. It was adapted into a 12-episode original video animation (OVA) series.